A.E. Dor Vintage 1989 Cognac Grande Champagne

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1989, a mythical year, like the year 1990, because the climatic conditions during the four seasons were perfect, giving a superb blooming at the right time of the buds and the leaves, a fragrant flowering in July under a bright sun, a veraison in August which saw an alternation of rains and suns favoring the ripening of the berries at pleasure, offering healthy harvests in a cool and dry autumn sun.

It is a Cognac which comes exclusively from wines harvested and distilled in 1989 from Grande Champagne, classified Premier Cru of the delimited region of cognac.

Cognac has aged since that date in small French oak barrels in the shade of century-old cellars.

The color is Cuban mahogany.

On the nose and on the palate: an infinite cognac on a palette of perfumes and flavors from white spring flowers, such as white hawthorn or osmanthus, passing through spices (gray and black pepper), cinnamon, nutmeg , candied fruits such as plum d'Ente or plum d'Alsace or apricot, to finish with a variety of coffees and mokas.

A tasting on dark chocolate cakes or Norwegian or vanilla ice cream or on an apricot or black cherry tart from the Basque Country, will be a plus.

A Cognac House created in 1858 by Jean Baptiste DOR, and continued by his son Amédée Edouard DOR, who sought, selected and collected the best Cognacs and Eaux-de-vie. At the time, professionals called him “the cognac antiquarian”. After ageing in oak barrels for decades (70 years and more), some of these venerable Eaux-de-vie from Grande Champagne region, the Cognac Premier Cru, were carefully collected at the maximum peak of their aroma into carboys sealed with wax, in order to preserve them and keep them undisturbed.

Today, these glass containers lay in a secret winery called “Paradis”, unchanged since its creation, proudly displaying its prestigious vintages. Flagship of the AE DOR House, they generally predate the well-known phylloxera, that is to say 1874. They kept intact their precious content for more than a century, and warrant the AE DOR House’s international renown.

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